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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.

~Becky Lynch

Topics: Any Classes Doing Feeling Gnawing Hard Hobbies Me Meant Stomach Take Up Wake Wake Up

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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

~Benito Mussolini

Topics: All Nations Birth Bound Decadence Empires Fate Fell Felt First Gnawing Nations Off Powers Rate Reproduction Them Up

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The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

~Bernard Devoto

Topics: Bad Been Day Even Found Gnawing Going Heart Lifted Promise Pulse Rat Season Sense Stops Sun Walls Weight Withdraw Wood Your

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Mike Tyson notoriously looked for a way out against Evander Holyfield when it was clear Holyfield had his number. Suddenly, Tyson's cowardice in gnawing off Holyfield's ear overshadowed nearly everything he had accomplished as a fighter.

~Brin-Jonathan Butler

Topics: Accomplished Against Clear Cowardice Ear Everything Fighter Gnawing Had He His Looked Mike Mike Tyson Nearly Number Off Out Suddenly Tyson Way

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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: Afflicts Anxiety Away Certainly Children Commonly Deeply Devoted Does Fathers Feel Gnawing Guilty Jobs Miss Moms Often Primal Same Seem Testify Women Working

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I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

~Catherine Tate

Topics: Anxious Doubt Gnawing Need Realised Wake

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In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

~Dylan Moran

Topics: Away Creature Different Different Ways Gnawing Inside Me Same Some Things Urging Way Ways

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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

~Edmund Burke

Topics: Drown Even Gnawing May Nation Rat Through

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The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?

~Elizabeth Bibesco

Topics: Beautiful Belonging Charm Doubt Either Expression Gnawing Go Horrible Irresistible Life Lovely Magnetism Matters Neither Nor Only Our Own Possible The Only Thing Then Thing Though Through Ugly Will

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Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Topics: Charity Does Forgotten Gnawing Grateful Great Little Make Men Turns Vengeful Worm

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